Milton Of Crathes
Cross Incised Stone(S) (Early Medieval)
Site Name Milton Of Crathes
Classification Cross Incised Stone(S) (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Crathes, East Lodge
Canmore ID 36676
Site Number NO79NW 22
NGR NO 7415 9617
NGR Description NO 7415 9617 and 7419 9616 and 741 962
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36676
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banchory-ternan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
Milton of Crathes 1, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.17m, D 0.07m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 7415 9617
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1913.
Present location: reused in a garden rockery at Milton of Crathes farmhouse.
Present condition: worn, and part of the right-hand side is missing.
Description:
Towards one end of this slab there is heavily incised an encircled equal-armed cross with hollows in the angles between the arms.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary reference: Ritchie 1915a, 44-5.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
Milton of Crathes 2, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.42m, W 0.33
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 7415 9617
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1913.
Present location: reused as a building stone in the external face of the farmhouse east wall.
Present condition: trimmed and weathered.
Description:
This fragment represents the central portion of a stone bearing an incised outline cross.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary reference: Ritchie 1915a, 44-5.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
Field Visit (December 1983)
NO79NW 22 7415 9617 and 7419 9616.
At Milton of Crathes (NO79NW 45.00) there are two cross-incised stones. The first (NO 7415 9617), said to have originally stood beside an old drove-road near Candieshill (NO 744 966), is incorporated in a rockery to the S of the farmhouse and measures 0.66m in length, up to 0.17m in width and 0.065m in thickness. On one face it bears an incised equal-armed cross set within a circle, with a circular hollow in each quadrant, and on an adjacent face there are four characters, possibly letters. The second stone (NO 7419 9616), which measures 0.42m by 0.33m, is built into the outside wall of the farmstead at its E end, and has an incised cross with arms 0.06m in width.
RCAHMS 1984, visited December 1983.
(J Ritchie 1915; W D Simpson 1943)
Watching Brief (August 2006)
NO 741 962 A watching brief was maintained in August 2006 during the installation of a new electricity pole c 46m SW of the East Lodge at Crathes Castle and c 6m S of the edge of a disused quarry. The pole is located in an archaeologically sensitive area in the castle grounds and is less than 400m from the Warren Field, the site of a Neolithic timber hall (NO79NW 17). No archaeological features or finds were evident during the work.
Report lodged with NTS and NMRS.
Sponsor: SSE Power Distribution.
J C Murray 2006
